TODAY'S NEWS (June.08.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Friendship meeting on National Day of Sweden
* Chollima movement
* New stamps
* Projected revision of "law on Self-Defence Forces"
* Long spell of drought and heat persists in the DPRK
* KCNA on GIs' mass killings
* Foreign embassy officials help Korean farmers
* Document showing U.S. military order to fire on civilians found
* U.S. occupation of S. Korea branded as cause of Korean War
* Defence of independence called for
* Group for study of Kim Jong Il's works formed in Austria
For Spanish-speaking people
* rpdc: perduran sequia y alto calor
* tropas norteamericanas son asesinos a civiles surcoreanos, comentario
de atcc
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Friendship meeting on National Day of Sweden
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- A friendship meeting was held at Moranbong
senior middle school no. 1 yesterday
on the occasion of the National Day of Sweden.
Invited to the meeting were charge d'affaires ad interim Svante
Kilander and an official of the Swedish embassy
here.
Present were officials concerned and teachers and students of the school.
The participants looked round practical training rooms of the school
before enjoying an art performance given by
schoolchildren.
Then they conversed with each other, deepening feelings of friendship.
Chollima movement
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- The Worker's Party of Korea vigorously
conducted the Chollima movement
during the period of lying the foundations of socialism.
It was a nationwide popular movement that called upon the masses to
eradicate everything obsolete and bring about
innovations in all spheres of economy, culture, ideology, and morality so
as to keep socialist construction going ahead
at the highest possible speed.
After the fulfillment of the three-year plan right after the war, the
WPK set forth the five-year plan for national
economy (1957-1961) in order to complete the work to lay foundations of
socialism.
At that time there were not a few difficulties and bottlenecks in the
country. Everything including equipment,
materials, manpower and funds were short of needs.
The WPK called the December Juche 45 (1956) plenary meeting of the
party central committee at which it put forth
the policy to overcome difficulties and bring about a great turn in the
building of socialism.
The President Kim Il Sung personally visited the Kangson Steel Plant at
that time and explained in detail to the
workers there the difficult situation of the country and said that if they
produced 10,000 more tons of structural steel it
would help the country greatly, calling upon them to struggle for increased
production.
In hearty response to the President's call, the workers of the plant
produced miraculous 120,000 tons of steel
billets in a blooming mill which had been regarded as absolutely incapable
of turning out more than 60,000 tons,
shattering passivism, conservatism and mysticism of technology.
As a result, the torch of Chollima advance flared up over Kangson and
spread across the land like a prairie fire.
Workers at the Kim Chaek Iron Works at that time produced 270,000 tons
of pig iron with equipment whose
maximum capacity had been rated at 190,000 tons.
The workers at the Hwanghae Iron Works at that time built a big furnace
in less than a year by their own efforts
and with their own technique.
Thanks to this revolutionary enthusiasm the 1957 plan for national
economy was fulfilled at 127 per cent.
During the period of the five-year plan the Korean workers produced
tractors, trucks, bulldozers, large-sized water
pumps, 3,000-ton press and electric locomotives in the crucible of the
Chollima movement.
The Chollima movement conducted under the wise leadership of the WPK
was very instrumental in turning the
DPRK into a socialist industrial-agricultural state from an agrarian
country in a short period of 6-7 years after the war.
New stamps
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications has recently issued two stamps, a
souvenir sheet and a miniature sheet all featuring monkeys.
The stamps each depict a eythrocebus patas sitting erect on a tree
trunk with a baby on its back a tarsius spectrum
clinging to a branch on a moonlit night.
The miniature sheet has a rearrangement of the two stamps against the
background of tropical jungle. The souvenir
sheet has two cercopithecus moan sitting on a branch in the foreground and
a host of monkeys and other animals on the
move in a lush tropical rainforest in the background.
Projected revision of "law on Self-Defence Forces"
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in its signed
commentary assails the Japan Defence Agency
for starting its specific examination of the motion to revise the "law on
the Self-Defence Forces" in the direction of
easing restrictions on the use of weapons.
This clearly indicates how desperately the Japanese reactionaries are
working to realize their ambition for
reinvasion, the commentary says, and goes on:
It is the same old trick of the Japanese reactionaries to invent a
pretext by every possible method and means to
achieve their sinister aim and persist in their moves to realize their
black-hearted design under that pretext.
Now that the "SDF" is allowed to dispatch not only its troops but
combat equipment such as planes and warships
to any part of the world, it is the real intention of the Japanese
reactionaries to use weapons as they please.
It was to this end that they worked out a foolish scenario called
"guerrilla attack" and openly started the
examination of the motion calling for the revision of the law.
Their loudmouthed "guerrilla attack" is nothing but a cheap farce
intended to mislead world public and justify their
preparations for reinvasion.
Noting that the Japanese reactionaries are not aware of the
catastrophic consequences to be entailed by their frantic
moves for reconquest, the commentary warns: They are well advised to drop
their wild design for reinvasion and come
to reason.
Long spell of drought and heat persists in the DPRK
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Drought and heat persist in all parts of
the DPRK.
Plain areas on the west coast including north and south Hwanghae
provinces, north and south Phyongan
provinces and northern inland areas are hard hit by the heat that has
lasted for over 10 days.
Average temperature in these regions is 30-33 degrees centigrade, 6 to
9 degrees higher than normal years. Due to
a long spell of drought and heat paddy fields are parched and
rice-transplantation is suspended in some areas. Maize
and other crops in dry fields are also hard hit by them.
Drought has persisted in the country for the last several months of the
year.
Rainfall in the granaries on the west coast including north and south
Hwanghae provinces and South Phyongan
Province was only 20 to 30 percent of the average record. In consequence,
much less water than average years is
stored in reservoirs and some of them are completely dried up and no water
is to be seen in rivers and streams.
Due to this drought crops planted in spring could not sprout and crops
are not doing well in this season.
As of the end of may drought hit a large area of paddy and non-paddy
fields throughout the country.
A measure has been taken to plant non-paddy crops in paddy fields due
to shortage of water. With pasture dried
up, there is an acute shortage of fodder for domestic animals.
Drought and heat are also adversely affecting land management and city
administration and other sectors.
According to weather forecast, drought and heat are expected to persist
in the days ahead.
KCNA on GIs' mass killings
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- It was recently disclosed by a military
document that the U.S. Army requested
U.S. war planes to strafe South Korean refugees and the U.S. Air Force
killed many civilians in cold blood during the
last Korean War, according to CBS and AP of the U.S. and MBC of South Korea.
This is another shocking evidence showing the grave crimes the U.S.
committed by barbarously massacring
innocent South Korean civilians. It is now arousing great wrath and hatred
among the Korean people.
As already known, AP last September reported that GIs killed more than
400 innocent civilians at the hamlet of
Rogun-ri during the Korean War.
Since then, at least 40 cases of massacres of South Korean civilians by
GIs have been brought to light one after
another.
The recently declassified document irrefutably proves once again that
the U.S. is chiefly responsible for the
massacres of South Korean civilians.
Foreign embassy officials help Korean farmers
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Foreign embassy officials and Syrian
students studying in the DPRK visited
cooperative farms to help Korean peasants in rice transplantation.
Lao ambassador Khamkheng Sayakeo and embassy officials visited the
Korea-Laos friendship Taewon
cooperative farm, Mongolian ambassador Damdiny Byamba and embassy officials
the Korea-Mongolia friendship
Jongbang cooperative farm and Syrian charge d'affaires Haissam Saad and
embassy officials and Syrian students
studying in Korea the Korea-Syria friendship Wonhwa cooperative farm.
During the breaks the visitors sang songs and conversed with farmers,
deepening feelings of friendship.
Lao and Mongolian embassy officials handed aid materials to co-op farms
they visited.
Document showing U.S. military order to fire on civilians found
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- A document showing that the U.S. Army
ordered its troops to fire on South
Korean refugees during the Korean War was recently found at the National
Archives in College Park, Maryland of the
U.S., according to a radio report from Seoul. CBS of the U.S. is said to
have reported the news on June 5.
This fact was disclosed in the memo written by the then U.S. Air Force
colonel Turner Rogers. The memo said,
"the army has requested that we (air force) strafe all civilian refugee
parties. To date, we have complied."
In another declassified document pilots said those strafed at the
instruction appeared to be evacuees, the report
noted.
Referring to this report of CBS, AP said: "The document adds to a
growing body of reports reflecting that in the
opening weeks of the Korean conflict, when American forces were in retreat,
the U.S. military adopted a policy of
deliberately firing on civilians."
U.S. occupation of S. Korea branded as cause of Korean War
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- The U.S.'s occupation of South Korea began
with landing of the 24th U.S. Army
corps at Inchon port on Sept. 8, 1945, which served as the cause of the war
of aggression on Korea.
The U.S. issued "military government ordinance" no. 28 in November 1945
to set up a "defense command" and in
December established a "military English school", the predecessor of the
"Military Academy" of South Korea.
Saturday evening post of the U.S. March 1946 reported that the U.S.
Army general staff office asserted, attaching
importance to the "military strategical value" of the Korean peninsula,
that "Korea is part of U.S. border at present."
The rigging up of Syngman Rhee's "government" gave a momentum to the
preparations in South Korea for
invasion of the north.
Coincidentally, a war slogan "northern expedition" appeared officially
in South Korea. In late November 1948 the
"law on organizing 'ROK' Army" was proclaimed and, under this "law," the
"ROK" Army was built into a regular
army equipped with arms and services in a short span of time. In may 1949
all its brigades were reformed into
divisions able to deal with modern warfare.
In order to encourage the Syngman Rhee's "government" to the war
against the DPRK, the U.S. provided more
than 105,000 rifles of various latest types, over 2,000 heavy and light
machine guns, more than 50 million bullets, a
large number of artillery of various types and shells, 5,000 military
vehicles, 79 warships and 20 war planes in 1949
alone.
The U.S. rounded off the war preparations in 1949 to invade the north
and set 1950 as the year of provoking the
war.
Defence of independence called for
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Safeguarding independence is a factor
decisive of the rise and fall of each country
and nation, says Rodong Sinmun today in an article.
The issue of the destiny of the country and the nation is, in essence,
related to that of independence, the article
notes, and goes on: Any country and nation lacking independence can not
escape colonial yoke and slavery.
It is an inviolable right of each country and people to independently
hew out the destiny of its nation. Each country
and nation should decide all the issues and independently carve out its
destiny according to its own view and
judgement.
But the imperialists are not pleased with this because of their
dominationist nature.
Recently the imperialists are resorting to every conceivable move to
violate independence of other country and
nation and dominate the countries as they please, floating the brigandish
sophism about what they call "monolithic
world."
It is the challenge common to the world progressive people at present
to smash the dominationist moves of the
imperialists and safeguard independence of the country and the nation.
It is none other than the imperialists who throw great hurdles and
create confusion in the way of the struggle of the
people for independence, sovereignty and socialism and threaten the world
peace and security.
The world progressive people should not be cheated by the honeyed words
and deceptive propaganda of the
imperialists, but advance under the uplifted banner of independence against
imperialism.
They should strengthen international solidarity and cooperation between
themselves to defend independence of
each country and nation.
The people of each country, as a member of the international community,
should struggle not only for their own
national independence but also for the independence of the world.
Unless the imperialists drop their policy for aggression and war going
against the trend of the times, there is no
way for them to get rid of the present predicament and their doom is
inevitable.
The article calls upon all the progressive people to put up an
uncompromising struggle against the imperialists to
firmly defend the sovereignty of each country and nation under the uplifted
banner of independence.
Group for study of Kim Jong Il's works formed in Austria
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Vienna on May 31 to
inaugurate the Austrian Group of
Communists For the Study of Works of Comrade Kim Jong Il.
Thomas Oberbichler, elected chief of the group, said that General
Secretary Kim Jong Il authored many works to
indicate the course of struggle for hastening the victory of the socialist
cause and has made immortal contributions to
the anti-imperialist struggle and cause of peace of the world's
revolutionary people.
The group will make a deep study of his works and disseminate them to
broad masses, he said.
A letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
For Spanish-speaking people
rpdc: perduran sequia y alto calor
pyongyang, 8 de junio (atcc) -- en estos dias en toda la extencion de
la republica popular democratica de corea
perduran fenomenos de sequia y alto calor.
el alto calor perdura en mas de 10 dias particularmente en las
provincias de hwanghae del sur y el norte, de
phyong-an del norte y el sur y otras zonas llanas occidentales e internas
septentrionales.
en estas zonas la temperatura media llega a 30 - 33 centigrados, es
decir 6-9 centigrados mas que los anos
ordinarios. por la sequia y alto calor los arrozales estan secos y en
algunas regiones se suspende el tranplante de
retonos de arroz. se da influencia negativa al crecimiento de maiz y otras
plantas del campo de secano.
desde primeros dias de este ano la sequia dura varios meses. en las
provincias de hwanghae del sur y el norte y de
phyong-an del sur y otros graneros de la costa occidental la precipitacion
no paso del 20-30 por ciento de la de anos
ordinarios.
como resultado generalmente los embalses quedan con muy poco caudal que
los anos ordinarios. se secaron
algunos embalses y los rios.
la sequia impide el brote de las plantas primaverales y el crecimiento
normal de otras.
hasta fines de mayo nacionalmente extensas areas de tierras cultivables
sufrieron danos de sequia.
se toman medidas encaminadas a aplicar las plantas del campo de secano
en los arrozales debido a la falta de agua.
los herbazales secos dificultan la solucion del pienso para la ganaderia.
la sequia y alta temperatura afectan grandemente a la administracion
territorial y urbana y otros sectores del pais.
segun el pronostico del tiempo estos fenomenos perduraran tambien en el
futuro.
tropas norteamericanas son asesinos a civiles surcoreanos, comentario de atcc
pyongyang, 8 de junio (atcc) -- segun cbs y ap de ee.uu. y la radio
"munhwa pangsong" de sudcorea se revelo
recientemente a treves de un documento militar el hecho de que durante la
pasada guerra coreana la fuerza terrestre
estadounidense pidio a sus aviones militares el ametrallamiento aereo
contra los refugiados surcorenos y la fuerza aerea
norteamericana mato despiadadamente a numerosos civiles.
este nuevo dato sensacional pone al desnudo los graves crimenes de los
imperialistas norteamericanos y suscita
infinita indignacion y enemistad a nuestro pueblo.
como es conocido por todos, en septiembre del ano pasado ap informo que
a principios de la pasada guerra
coreana las tropas norteamericanas mataron a mas de 400 habitantes
inocentes en la comuna de rogun.
con posterioridad, se revelaron sucesivamente mas de 40 casos de
matanza perpetrados por las tropas
norteamericanas contra civiles en sudcorea.
el ametrallamiento aereo contra los refugiados surcoreanos revelado
esta vez demuestra nitidamente que ee.uu. es
los delincuentes que masacraron a muchos civiles surcoreanos.
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